Idiom
golden ticket
Meaning
A qualification, person or thing that can provide positive opportunities.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“This job offer is a golden ticket for my career.”
“Winning this talent show is your golden ticket to a professional music contract.”
“A recommendation from the CEO is a golden ticket during the hiring process.”
“Getting accepted into that prestigious university felt like a golden ticket to a successful future.”
“Learning to code fluently is a golden ticket for anyone who wants to work remotely while traveling the world.”
“The young athlete knows that an Olympic medal is a golden ticket to expensive sponsorship deals with major brands.”
“The exclusive patent served as a golden ticket, granting the startup unprecedented access to global markets and long-term financial security.”
Examples
simple
“This job offer is a golden ticket for my career.”
“Winning this talent show is your golden ticket to a professional music contract.”
“A recommendation from the CEO is a golden ticket during the hiring process.”
contextual
“Getting accepted into that prestigious university felt like a golden ticket to a successful future.”
“Learning to code fluently is a golden ticket for anyone who wants to work remotely while traveling the world.”
“The young athlete knows that an Olympic medal is a golden ticket to expensive sponsorship deals with major brands.”
complex
“The exclusive patent served as a golden ticket, granting the startup unprecedented access to global markets and long-term financial security.”
Origin
From golden and ticket, popularized by the winning vouchers in the 1964 book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl. The construction pairs golden, as a reference to a valuable or desirable object, with ticket, as the necessary instrument for obtaining it.
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